On Facebook Live. Tune in for the WNYPC’s weekly taping of #TalkingPeace! With host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director. Recorded by #ThinkTwiceRadio: Home of the Future! Featuring:
1st hour: Mark Colville, Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – of the Amistad Catholic Worker, New Haven, Connecticut; Emily Rubino, Director of Policy & Outreach, Peace Action NYS
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- 1/22/21: Enter Into Force (EIF) day for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- what that means to the US and other (nuclear-armed) non-ratifiers
- Catholic Workers, KBP7
- Nuclear Weapons as a gun to the World’s head
- action steps: Back from the Brink campaign; call Congressional Reps
2nd hour: Aisha Jumaan, President of the Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation; Kawthar Abdullah, Lead Organizer NYC Chapter of Yemeni Alliance Committee
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- current situation in Yemen
- International Day of Action for Yemen on 1/25
- involvement of external actors including especially US
- current needs [including personal stories]
- what people can do to help (including urging Biden to rescind Trump Admin’s designation of Houthis as a terrorist group)
- opportunities on 1/25
On FB Live. Hosted by WNYPC Executive Director, Vicki Ross. So graciously taped by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future!
First hour: featuring Clare Grady on
- Epiphany
- Catholic Workers/Plowshares
- Witness Against Torture
- Kings Bay Plowshares 7, nuclear weapons (including Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons)
Second hour: Agnes Williams, Seneca, Indigenous Women’s Initiatives; with Clare Grady
- Nuclear Waste/West Valley clean-up
- UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP)
- Prior Free & Informed Consent (to land use, etc)
- Environmental Justice/Care for Mother Earth
- People and the Planet
On Zoom – register here. join the #CenterForConstitutionalRights Justice for Muslims Collective, Amnesty International USA, and Witness Against Torture for a virtual conversation, Rights or Rightlessness? The Lives of Men Imprisoned at Guantánamo.
This January marks 19 years that the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open. Throughout the last two decades, hundreds of men have been released from Guantánamo, but without any vindication or measure of justice. Forty men currently remain imprisoned without charge or fair trial, and their rights continue to be contested in and out of the courtroom.
Guantánamo, extreme as it is, can and must be situated in a broader history of U.S. detention camps and harms of the carceral state. What lessons can we learn from Japanese-American camps during WWII, the detention of Haitian refugees at Guantánamo in the 1990s, and the last 19 years of the military prison itself, to work towards the closure of the prison?
Speakers include:
– Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Guantánamo Bay prison survivor and author of the best-selling book, Guantánamo Diary (2015)
– Baher Azmy, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director
– Dr. A. Naomi Paik, Associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (2016)
The conversation will be moderated by Justice for Muslims Collective Co-Founder/Co-Director Dr. Maha Hilal and Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain.
